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HHS Boosting Nation’s Stockpile of Burn Treatments in Case of Nuclear Attack (but Iran deal?!)
Cybercast News Service ^
| October 1, 2015 | 6:49 AM EDT
| Susan Jones
Posted on 10/01/2015 8:31:58 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The detonation of an improvised nuclear device would produce intense heat, resulting in many patients with severe burns, says a September 30 news release from the Department of Health and Human Services.
The announcement says HHS has contracted for the development of four novel products to treat severe thermal burns.
The products will boost the number of treatment options in case of disaster, and theyll also be used in routine burn care situations.
The four treatmentsone commercially available right now and three in developmentwill be added to the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) or managed by vendors to help protect people from burn injuries resulting from radiological and nuclear threats, HHS said.
The announcement notes that burns stemming from a nuclear attack may require surgial skin grafting that is resource intensive and technically demanding. And with only 127 burn centers nationwide, a mass casualty incident could easily overwhelm the nations burn care infrastructure.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bomb; burntreatments; dhimmitude; hhs; iran; kerry; nuclear; obama; rop; terror; treason; worldwar3
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posted on
10/01/2015 8:31:58 AM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
Anyone not wearing 2 million sunblock is going to be dead, get it?
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posted on
10/01/2015 8:43:06 AM PDT
by
Lx
(Do you like it? Do you like it, Scott? I call it, "Mr. & Mrs. Tenorman Chili.")
To: Olog-hai
The detonation of an improvised nuclear device would produce intense heat, resulting in many patients with severe burns, Someone gets paid to say this? What's next, an official proclamation that water is wet?
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posted on
10/01/2015 8:50:48 AM PDT
by
Ancesthntr
("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
To: Olog-hai
And with only 127 burn centers nationwide, a mass casualty incident could easily overwhelm the nations burn care infrastructure.
Especially considering that most of the burn care infrastructure is located in cities (i.e. target areas).
Yet another “DUH!” moment for the genius announcing this stuff. You know, just buy the stuff, everyone with at least 2 working neurons understands why and agrees.
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posted on
10/01/2015 8:52:55 AM PDT
by
Ancesthntr
("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
To: Ancesthntr
Somebody want to tell me what an “improvised nuclear device “is?Is that PC for atomic bomb?
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posted on
10/01/2015 8:56:56 AM PDT
by
Farmer Dean
(stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
To: Farmer Dean
“Somebody want to tell me what an improvised nuclear device is?Is that PC for atomic bomb?”
That’s PC for “an atomic bomb not manufactured by a government, because it can’t be that sophisticated if done by individuals.”
The moniker, “improvised” seeks to denigrate it and the people who would make it (or who already HAVE made it, we can’t know). But its not exactly like an improvised thermite device that could be made with a few household chemicals...it is orders of magnitude more complex.
Yeah, its an a-bomb. I’m so sick and f’ing tired of this PC crap...can’t wait for Trump to be elected and make all of the heads of the PC crowd explode.
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posted on
10/01/2015 9:05:03 AM PDT
by
Ancesthntr
("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
To: Ancesthntr
I’m right where you are on this,sick of all the word games.
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posted on
10/01/2015 9:08:04 AM PDT
by
Farmer Dean
(stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
To: pocat
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posted on
10/01/2015 9:09:27 AM PDT
by
timestax
(American Media = Domestic Enemy)
To: Olog-hai
Wait until they light one off in the upper atmosphere. Can you spell
EMP children?
Yeah, a lot of the military is hardened, but the commercial and civilian world?
I can just see the Ayatollah sitting down with Kerry, saying "Yeah, you can make our whole country glow in the dark, but can America stand going back to the 1800s? Let's talk."
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posted on
10/01/2015 9:27:13 AM PDT
by
Oatka
(This is America. Assimilate or evaporate. [URL=http://media.photobucket.com/user/currencyjunkie/me)
To: sneakers
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posted on
10/01/2015 9:38:20 AM PDT
by
sneakers
To: Lx
Lots of people won’t be inside the blast area... The burn lotion is for those of us a few miles away. You shouldn’t push liberal stupidity...
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posted on
10/01/2015 10:16:20 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
("The Lives of Others" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPjzfGChGlE)
To: Ancesthntr
Knowing how horrible our federal government is, we can assume all burn ointments will be in large city warehouses - places most likely to be nuked...
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posted on
10/01/2015 10:18:31 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
("The Lives of Others" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPjzfGChGlE)
To: GOPJ
Actually, I’m pushing James Cameron’s liberal stupidity.
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posted on
10/01/2015 10:21:46 AM PDT
by
Lx
(Do you like it? Do you like it, Scott? I call it, "Mr. & Mrs. Tenorman Chili.")
To: Lx
James Cameron grew up in the MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction - kiss your ass goodbye) days.
It was a different time.
Today if ISIS or Iran hit us with a nuke or two - we would survive. It’s not the same.
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posted on
10/01/2015 12:54:55 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
("The Lives of Others" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPjzfGChGlE)
To: Olog-hai; 3D-JOY; abner; Abundy; AGreatPer; Albion Wilde; AliVeritas; alisasny; ...
Burn, baby, burn.
PING!
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posted on
10/01/2015 8:31:12 PM PDT
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(Democrats and GOP-e: a difference of degree, not philosophy)
To: Oatka
Actually, we’d go back much further than the 1800’s, since there are not many steam locomotives or horse-drawn carriages, and probably not enough hand tools to go around to harvest all those amber waves of grain.
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posted on
10/01/2015 8:36:54 PM PDT
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(Democrats and GOP-e: a difference of degree, not philosophy)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Actually, wed go back much further than the 1800s, since there are not many steam locomotives or horse-drawn carriages, and probably not enough hand tools to go around to harvest all those amber waves of grain.Good points. Probably back to the Medieval times.
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posted on
10/02/2015 8:42:38 AM PDT
by
Oatka
(This is America. Assimilate or evaporate. [URL=http://media.photobucket.com/user/currencyjunkie/me)
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